Actualy lately I have treated it carefully since I´ve came to the conclusion that it should last me three years instead of the intended two.

So my phone has been immortal, until today =( today was the day of the freak accident!

My keys ate a hole in the pocket off my winter trousers and ended up in the lining near my feet, trying to retrive them awhile carefully balancing on a mix of ice, snow and gravel I lost my balance and dropped my phone from two to three decimeters together with my gloves. It ended up on top of the gloves, mostly. The drop was face down and the part of the phone not guarded by the gloves apparently fell on some extremely hard and sharp gravel, it cracked in a fashion that looks like someone shot it with a BB gun.

I got a few days before the glass eats through the screen protector and draws blood, the only options I see is to replace the screen which seems almost as expensive as buying a new phone. Option number two is to buy a new phone, one that is equal but with a better camera and that cane take some abuse.

Unless you really want the sApps: Nexus 4. I'm not sure what availability looks like now (it sounds like the unavailable hubbub has died down). If you really like/want the sApps then consider waiting until the S4 is released and picking up an S3. Samsung has already stated that the apps that don't rely on specific hardware existing in the phone (i.e. the IR blaster) the new apps and OS will be backported to the S3. So you'd get (most) of the benefits of the S4 at a (presumably) lower cost than the S3 currently sells for.